Nigerian air force passenger plane crash kills seven people

By Reuters,

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on bo...

Nigerian air force

PROFILE: Ngele Ali, holding space for communities to use their own voices

By Guest Writer,

By Patience Nyange and Esther Kirago Ngele Ali is an award-winning media, communications for development and advocacy expert with over 20 years of ...

ngele ali

Nigerian kids The Critics use phones to create sci-fi films

By CNN,

Across a rocky landscape, two young girls find themselves running for cover as spaceships fire laser guns into the field. To survive, both girls, d...

sci-fi

Nigerian military in firefight with gang who kidnapped students

By Reuters,

The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state, acco...

Nigeria

Nigerian citizens in Nairobi protest against controversial anti-robbery squad

By Erick Owenga,

A section of Nigerian citizens camped outside the High Commission in Nairobi on Wednesday protesting over the injustices by the Special Anti-Robbery S...

Nigeria , SARs

COVID-19 fuels surge in sexual violence, child marriage

By VOA,

Fresh out of university, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi was living in the southern Nigerian state of Rivers when she was sexually assaulted. A housemate...

coronavirus

New Nollywood film ‘Oloture’ sheds light on human trafficking in Nigeria

By CNN,

Dressed in a transparent and colorful blouse, a sex worker in Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria jumps out the window of a room at a party to avo...

Netflix , oloture

Refugees in Africa face hunger as COVID-19 worsens food shortages, agencies warn

By Citizen Reporter,

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply ch...

coronavirus , refugees , UNHCR , WFP

Coronavirus poses test for African leaders

By VOA,

As Burundi enters a period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died Monday, his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic is being scrut...

African leaders , coronavirus , magufuli , Nkurunziza

Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of COVID-19

By CNN,

The Nigerian government has lifted restrictions placed on religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The previous ban on religious and s...

coronavirus

AU demands ‘immediate remedial measures’ from China after claims of hostility towards Africans

By Citizen Reporter,

The African Union is demanding that China remedy the situation in parts of the country where foreigners are allegedly being mistreated. The stateme...

china , coronavirus

Coronavirus fears spark xenophobia in China

By CNN,

The African community in Guangzhou is on edge after widespread accounts were shared on social media of people being left homeless this week, as China'...

china , coronavirus

Coronavirus: Murkomen now calls for protection of tenants, reduction of food prices

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Senate Majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen has proposed a raft of measures aimed at cushioning Kenyans from the imminent economic crisis orchestrated b...

OPINION: Undeterred: Kenya’s tourism faces 2020 confidently

By Joseph Bonyo,

Last weekend I was in Diani, Ukunda. Famed for its white sandy beaches and hospitable facilities, it was a welcome relief to Nairobi’s hustles. T...

Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa , tourism

Andear Mwangi: Drama as Nigerian man tries to take body from Umash

By Citizen Reporter,

There was drama at Umash Funeral Home in Nairobi after a Nigerian man tried to take the body of his wife, Andear Mwangi, without her family’s consen...

Andear Mwangi , Emedo , Nigerian , Umash Funeral Home

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

By Reuters,

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the prom...

slavery , west africa , Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation

Migne to keep his Stars job despite AFCON failure, says FKF

By Jacob Icia,

Harambee Stars head coach Sebastien Migne will after all keep his job despite hue and cry from football loving fans. Harambee Stars elimination fro...

AFCON2019 , CHAN , Harambee Stars , keep job , Sebastien Migne

Nigeria’s Buhari kicks off challenge-filled second term with low-key inauguration

By Reuters,

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in on Wednesday for a second term at a low-key inauguration ceremony in which he surprised many by not d...

Boko Haram , Nigeria , President Muhammadu Buhari

Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger deploy troops after fresh Boko Haram attack

By VOA,

The Multi-National Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission made up of forces from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Niger, has deployed troops af...

Boko Haram

The fatal shooting of a Nigerian man brings more demands to shut down a controversial police unit

By CNN,

The fatal police shooting of a Nigerian man has sparked outrage and reignited a public call for the shutdown of a controversial police unit in the cou...

Lagos , Nigeria , shooting